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Distributing system configuration information from a manager machine to subscribed endpoint machines in a distrubuted computing environment

  • US 5,838,918 A
  • Filed: 03/31/1995
  • Issued: 11/17/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/13/1993
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of distributing system configuration information from a manager machine to a set of one or more endpoint machines in a distributed computing environment to configure said set of endpoint machines, the manager machine supporting a template manager and a central configuration database in which system configuration information is stored in a generic configuration format and organized into a set of templates, and wherein at least one or more endpoint machines are configurable using system configuration information in a respective native configuration format that differs from the generic configuration format, said method comprising the steps of:

  • (a) in response to a subscription request from an endpoint machine identifying a template, copying the template manager to the endpoint machine to generate a subscriber template manager;

    (b) propagating a portion of the central configuration database associated with the template from the manager machine to the endpoint machine to generate a subscriber database in which system configuration information is stored in the generic configuration format, wherein said system configuration information defines one or more of (1) user access rights and user privileges, said user access rights and user privileges including file read, file write and application execution;

    (2) file system access rights, and file system access rights including access to one or more specified file systems in a distributed computer system;

    (3) network connections, said network connections including a description of physical and logical connections between said one or more endpoint machines; and

    (4) printer availability; and

    (c) propagating the system configuration information in the generic configuration format from the subscriber database to an application running on the endpoint machine.

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